Best Album of 2020 – Readers Choice

We here at Metal Epidemic are excited to present the Readers’ Poll for Best Album of 2020!

As the Metal Epidemic team frantically put together their end of year lists, we’re turning it over to you, the readers, to have your say on what was the best album of 2020. We’ve put together this pretty bitchin’ list of albums released this year (but you can also add your own), so go forth and vote for your top THREE most-loved albums of 2020!

Still undecided? Check out our ‘Best Metal Albums of 2020‘ playlist on Spotify.

Poll closes on December 31st at midnight!

This poll is no longer accepting votes

Pick your 3 favourite albums of 2020:
  • Aqvilea - Beyond the Elysian Fields12.30%
  • Orbit Culture - Nija9.31%
  • Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant6.55%
  • Haken - Virus4.94%
  • Cryptodira - The Angel of History3.79%
  • Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons – We’re The Bastards3.22%
  • Hellripper - The Affair of the Poisons3.10%
  • Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi2.07%
  • Testament - Titans of Creation1.95%
  • Trivium - What the Dead Men Say1.61%
  • Katatonia - City Burials1.61%
  • Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portaits of Doomed Escape1.38%
  • Lamb of God - Lamb of God1.26%
  • Deftones - Ohms1.26%
  • The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic1.26%
  • Killer Be Killed - Reluctant Hero1.15%
  • Paradise Lost - Obsidian1.03%
  • Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still1.03%
  • Unleash the Archers - Abyss0.92%
  • AC/DC - Power Up0.92%
  • Sepultura - Quadra0.80%
  • Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything0.80%
  • Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 0.80%
  • Pallbearer - Forgotten Days0.80%
  • Static-X - Project Regeneration Vol. 10.80%
  • Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy0.80%
  • Sylosis - Cycle of Suffering0.69%
  • Protest the Hero - Palimpsest0.69%
  • Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism0.69%
  • Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment0.69%
  • Cirith Ungol - Forever Black0.69%
  • Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut0.69%
  • Dark Tranquillity - Moment0.69%
  • Massive Wagons - House Of Noise 0.69%
  • Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic0.57%
  • Kvelertak - Splid0.57%
  • Havok - V0.57%
  • Bleed From Within - Fracture0.57%
  • Benediction - Scriptures0.57%
  • Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity0.57%
  • Sordid Pink - Sordid Pink0.57%
  • Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville0.57%
  • Body Count - Carnivore0.57%
  • Sodom – Genesis XIX0.57%
  • Novena - Eleventh Hour 0.57%
  • Mountaineer - Bloodletting0.46%
  • Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions0.46%
  • My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion0.46%
  • Code Orange - Underneath0.46%
  • Irist - Order of the Mind0.46%
  • Gaerea - Limbo0.46%
  • Misery Signals - Ultraviolet0.46%
  • Enslaved - Utgard0.46%
  • Tallah - Matriphagy0.46%
  • Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind0.46%
  • Xibalba - Anos En Infierno0.46%
  • Avatar - Hunter Gatherer0.46%
  • Black Stone Cherry – The Human Condition0.46%
  • The Wildhearts – 30 Year Itch0.46%
  • Carach Angren - Franckensteina Strataemontanus0.46%
  • Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth and Sacrifice0.46%
  • Orthodox - Let It Take Its Course0.34%
  • Atavist - III: Absolution0.34%
  • Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!0.34%
  • Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus0.34%
  • Make Them Suffer - How To Survive a Funeral0.34%
  • Necrot - Mortal0.34%
  • Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place To Die0.34%
  • EYES - Underperformer0.34%
  • LIK - Misanthropic Breed0.34%
  • Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos0.34%
  • Palm Reader - Sleepless0.34%
  • Bury Tomorrow - Cannibal0.34%
  • Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion0.34%
  • Lorna Shore - Immortal0.34%
  • Plini - Impulsive Voices0.34%
  • Winterfylleth - The Reckoning Dawn0.34%
  • Carcass – Despicable0.34%
  • Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature 0.34%
  • Delain - Apocalypse & Chill0.34%
  • Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh0.23%
  • Huntsmen - Mandala of Fear0.23%
  • Neck of the Woods - The Annex of Ire0.23%
  • The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous0.23%
  • Grayscale Season - Everything Hurts0.23%
  • The Acacia Strain - Slow Decay0.23%
  • Primmitive Man - Immersion 0.23%
  • Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos0.23%
  • Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator of God0.23%
  • Defecto - Duality0.23%
  • Harlott - Detritus of the Final Age0.23%
  • Dawnwalker - Ages0.23%
  • Growth - The Smothering Arms of Mercy0.23%
  • Amaranthe - Manifest0.23%
  • Intervals - Circadian0.23%
  • Electric Hydra – Electric Hydra0.23%
  • Stygian - Atramentus0.23%
  • Fairyland - Osyriantha0.23%
  • Leeched - To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse0.11%
  • Suicide Silence - Become the Hunter0.11%
  • Psychonaut - Unfold the God Man0.11%
  • Hyborian - Volume II0.11%
  • Beggar - Compelled To Repeat0.11%
  • Cabal - Drag Me Down0.11%
  • Revulsion - Enough to Bleed0.11%
  • Grey Daze - Amends0.11%
  • Emmure - Hindsight0.11%
  • Exocrine - Maelstrom0.11%
  • Curses - Chapter II: Bloom0.11%
  • Exist - Egoiista0.11%
  • Cult of Lilith - Mara0.11%
  • Pathogen - Null Space0.11%
  • Carnation - Where Death Lies0.11%
  • Sevendust - Blood & Stone0.11%
  • Chamber - Cost of Sacrifice 0.11%
  • Wake - Devouring Ruin0.11%
  • END - Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face0.11%
  • Sweven - The Eternal Resonance0.11%
  • Armored Saint - Punching the Sky0.11%
  • Aversions Crown - Hell Will Come For Us All0.11%
  • DevilDriver - Dealing with Demons I0.11%
  • The Ghost Inside - The Ghost Inside0.11%
  • Vader - Solitude in Madness0.11%
  • Venom Prison - Primeval0.11%
  • Razor Sharp Death Blizzard - The World Is Fucked0.11%
  • Deaf Giant - Abyss0.11%
  • Babymetal - Metal Galaxy0.11%
  • Pain of salvation - Panther0.11%
  • Rannoch - Reflections Upon Darkness0.11%
  • Dropdead - Dropdead 0.11%
  • Sephiroth - Gods and Nightmares0.11%
  • Hum - Inlet0.11%
  • Carnosus - Dogma of the Deceased 0.11%
  • Descend - The Deviant0.11%
  • Onslaught - Generation Antichrist0.11%
  • Scardust - Strangers0.11%
  • MyGrain - V0.11%
  • Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full0.11%
  • Poppy - I Disagree0%
  • Higher Power - 27 Miles Underwater0%
  • Bodysnatcher - This Heavy Void0%
  • Royal Deceit - Animus 0%
  • Banisher - Degrees of Isolation0%
  • Azusa - Loop of Yesterdays0%
  • The Ditch and the Delta - The Ditch and the Delta 0%
  • Endless Forms Most Gruesome - Endless Forms Most Gruesome0%
  • Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life0%
  • Bear - Propaganda0%
  • Abrams - Modern Ways0%
  • Binary Code - Memento Mori0%
  • City of Souls - Synaesthesia0%
  • Cro-Mags - In the Beginning 0%
  • Justice for the Damned - Pain is Power0%
  • Medicated - Descension0%
  • Wither - Animus0%
  • Aseitas - False Peace0%
  • Sharptooth - Transitional Forms0%
  • AHTME - Mephitic0%
  • Stillbirth - Revive the Throne0%
  • This Is Endless - Formations of a World Below0%
  • En Minor - When the Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out0%
  • Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber0%
  • The Erkonauts - I Want It To End0%
  • La Fin - The Endless Inertia0%
  • Fawn Limbs - Sleeper Vessels 0%
  • Kneel - Ailment0%
  • Pteroglyph - Solaire0%
  • GHØSTKID - GHØSTKID0%
  • Hatebreed - Weight of the False Self0%
  • Like Rats - Dead Monolith0%
  • Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis0%
  • Ether Coven - Everything is Temporary Except Suffering0%
  • Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread0%
  • Mora Prokaza - By Chance0%
  • Xenobiotic - Mordrake0%
  • King Mothership – The Ritual0%
  • Possessor – Damn the Light0%
  • Soulburn – Noa’s D’Ark0%
  • Majestica - A Christmas Carol0%
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